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CLXXI. SBLAGINE^. 



S. cinered. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Selago. 

 Calyx (mag.). 



Selago dfierea. 

 Corolla and andrcecium laid open (inag.). 



Selago corymhosa: 



Selago. 

 Ovnle (magi). 



Selago. 

 Stamen (mag.). 



Hebenstreiiia. 



Transverse section of 



fruit (mag.). 



Bebenstreitia. 



Fertile carpel, 



outer face. 



Hebenstreitia. 



Fertile carpel, 



inner face. 



Hehenslreitia. 

 Fertile carpel cut 

 vertically (mag.). 



HehenstreiHa. SebensireiUa. Hebmstreitia. 



Sfcerile carpel, Sterile carpel. Seed cut verbi- 



outerface. inner face. caUy (mag.). 



sepalous, spathiform or tubular, 5-3-toothed or -pattite, rarely of 2 free sepals. 

 Corolla hypogjnous, monopetalous, deciduous ; tube entire or split lengthwise $ limb 

 ^-S-lobed, 1-2-labiate or sub-regular, spreading, sestivation imbricate. Stamens 

 inserted on tbe corolla-tube, alternate witli its segments, sometimes 4 sub-didyna- 

 mous, or equal with a rudimentary fifth, sometimes 2 only ; fitaments filiform ; anthers 

 1-celled, dehiscence longitudinal. Otaet free, of 2 antero-posterior cells ; style 

 terminal, simple ; stigma undivided, sub-capitate ; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous 

 from the top cell, anatropous. Fruit of 2 achenes, free when ripe, often unequal, 

 one sterile or obsolete ; pericarp membranous, adherent to the seed, rarely spongy or 

 farrowed with cellules. Seeds inverted ; testa coriacepus. Embryo straight, cylin- 



